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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower
I just love how it's a "Durrrr fantasy football ruining the game" narrative around here.
No. It matters *very* little if your starting QB puts up 210 1/0 TDs to INTs or 3/2 ratio and 305 if you ultimately win. What *does* matter when those yards are earned and points put on the board. Nobody rational would be bitching Smith got 55 of those yards and the TD on the final offensive possession of the game to either take the lead or to salt away a game.
Problem is that outside of maybe five total games in a decade long career Smith has proven incapable of doing just that. Prior to the head injury Smith was looking like he had the potential to actually come up big when the moment calls for it, which is what most rational fans who have been Smith skeptics are really asking for. Issue being they've been against awful defenses.
Foles very well might be totally incapable of putting points on the board when it matters and inept against an average or better defense. But he doesn't have the track record to exactly prove that point. Smith, on the other hand, has a track record of being foiled in critical situations or against average to good defenses.
Q'ing myself here but we know Smith's ceiling and his floor. We don't know Foles' ceiling but have a pretty good idea that Foles' floor is much lower than Smith's.
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I beg to differ. The 2010 era Alex Smith was one of the worst quarterbacks I think I've ever seen play at the professional level. He got beat handily that year by Matt Castle-led chiefs and threw nothing but checkdown passes yet still had 12 interceptions. Part of that was couching but that's a floor few if any quarterbacks have ever seen.